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Agenda for Meeting on 3 January 2017 TRIMLEY ST MARTIN PARISH COUNCIL You are hereby summoned to attend the meeting of Trimley St Martin Parish Council to be held at the Trimley St Martin Memorial Hall on Tuesday 3rd January 2017 at 7.30 p.m. Caroline Ley, Parish Clerk 28 December 2017 Public Session Please Note: residents are warmly welcomed and invited to give their views at this stage of the proceedings and to question the Parish Council on issues on the agenda, or raise issues for future consideration at the discretion of the Chairman. Members of the public may stay to observe, but may not take part in the Parish Council meeting that follows. County and District Councillor Reports (items raised for decision at this time will be placed on the agenda for the next meeting). Public Question Time Parish Council Meeting 1. To elect a Vice Chairperson for the Council following the election of Councillor Sills as Chairman 2. To Receive Apologies for Absence 3. To Receive Declarations of Interests For Councillors to declare any interests in matters on the agenda. 4. To Receive and Determine Requests for Dispensations To receive and determine requests from Councillors for dispensations enabling them to speak, or speak and vote, on matters on which they have a pecuniary interest 5. To Approve the Minutes of the Meeting Held 6th December 2016 (attached) To approve the minutes of the meeting held 6th December 2016 6. To note the response from Department for Transport to Eversheds LLP detailing the additional matters to be addressed in the Network Rail Environmental Statement Following consultation with Suffolk County Council, SCDC, Trimley St Mary Parish Council, Historic England, Natural England, the Environment Agency and, of course, Trimley St Martin Parish Council, the Department for Transport have written to Eversheds setting out the additional matters that should be addressed in the Environmental Statement relating to the Gun Lane Bridge. A copy of their letter is attached at Annexe A. Points 7, 13 and 14 are those raised by this parish council. 7. To record thanks to the Trimley Saints Players for leading the singing at the Reeve Lodge Christmas celebration To record thanks to Trimley Saints Players for the entertainment they provided at the Reeve Lodge Christmas Celebration and to approve a contribution of £50 towards their funds. 8. To Note the Position in relation to the Request for Financial Support towards Replacement Play Equipment at Trimley Sports & Social Club Representatives of the Sports & Social Club & District Councillor Harding will be meeting staff from SCDC Active Communities Team in late January to discuss their aims and obtain guidance on issues of design and other matters. The Clerk has been invited to attend the meeting. The Secretary to the Sports & Social Club will provide an update on progress at the February meeting 9. To Receive a Financial Statement to 25th December 2016 (includes bank statements and budget update) To receive a Financial and Budget Statement to 25th December 2016 10. To Approve the Following Cheque Payments:- To approve the following payments: Date Cheque No. Payable to In Respect of Amount £ 03/01/2017 300127 Trimley Donation £50.00 Saints in Players recognition of services provided at Reeve Lodge 03/01/2017 300128 Mr B Cleaning £54.00 Dunningham of Bus shelter 03/01/2017 300129 G Mussett Locum £120.00 clerk’s salary 03/01/2017 300130 Caroline Ley Clerk’s £384.28 Salary 03/01/2017 300131 HMRC Tax due on £119.40 clerks’ salary 03/01/2017 300132 Trimley Transfer £1,000.00 Memorial Hall of Funds Corporate Trust. 03/01/2017 300133 Trimley Hall Hire £115.00 Memorial Hall for Meetings 03/01/2017 300134 SALC a)Local £67.56 councils Explained b)Planning workshop c)Clerks Networking . 11. To Consider offering comment on the Sizewell C Stage 2 Consultation see Annexe B 12. Close Annex A Annexe B Sizewell C The Parish council is invited by EDF Energy to comment upon aspects of their proposals for a new nuclear power station at Sizewell. The consultation period runs to 3 February 2017 The detailed consultation documents can be found at https://edfsizewell.dialoguebydesign.net/default.asp EDF summarise the position as follows: EDF Energy 1 intends to submit an application for development consent to build and operate a new nuclear power station, Sizewell C, along with the associated development (such as an accommodation campus and transport proposals) required to enable construction and operation. Before submitting the application we are consulting on our proposals. In recognition of the amount of time that has passed, and in response to public feedback at stage one, our formal consultation programme now includes three formal public consultation stages, one more than originally proposed in 2012. This is Stage 2 of our pre-application consultation. At Stage 1, which ran from November 2012 to February 2013, we consulted on our initial proposals and options. Overall 1,298 responses were received to the Stage 1 consultation. As well as considering feedback received at Stage 1, we have continued to engage and receive informal feedback from community groups, parish councils and other stakeholders since February 2013. In 2014, we undertook some informal engagement with local communities as we progressed our thinking on site options for the accommodation campus and park and ride sites. National and local planning policy, along with feedback from the first stage of consultation, on-going engagement and technical and environmental information from further studies, modelling and assessments, has helped shape our plans. The Stage 2 strategies and proposals are summarised in this document and more detailed information is available in the Stage 2 Consultation Document. The Stage 2 consultation is open until 3 February 2017 and responses must be received by this date. Following Stage 2 we will consider all responses and use them to further inform the development of our plans. We will publish our preferred proposals alongside more technical and environmental information at a further stage of consultation, which will pave the way for the submission of an application for development consent. If necessary we will also undertake limited, focused stages of consultation if specific issues or significant changes arise. Further consultation will be promoted in advance. Before we began the Stage 1 Consultation, we prepared and published a Statement of Community Consultation (SOCC) explaining how we proposed to consult the local community about our proposals. Since then we have decided to include an additional stage of formal consultation. An ‘Updated SOCC’ was prepared to reflect the revised approach. We consulted the relevant local authorities and our ‘Updated SOCC’ is available online: www.sizewellc.co.uk . Development consent order Sizewell C is classed as a Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project (NSIP) under the Planning Act 2008. Following pre-application consultation, we will make an application to the Planning Inspectorate in the form of a development consent order (DCO). The Planning Inspectorate will process and examine the application before making a recommendation to the relevant Secretary of State, who will make the final decision on whether or not to grant consent for Sizewell C. More information on the NSIP planning process can be found at: http://infrastructure.planninginspectorate.gov.uk 1 NNB Generation Company (SZC) A Joint Local Authority Group (JLAG) summit was held on 6 December to discuss plans for Sizewell C. The key areas raised by the community as part of the event related to accommodation, the impact on the community, construction, economy and skills, transport and the environment. The main concerns of those towns and parishes attending the event were around the planned construction of the temporary accommodation campus for the workforce (2,400 bed spaces) and the inevitable impact on roads and transport. As would be expected the attendees at the event were primarily those parishes and towns along the A12 corridor. EDF say that have developed their plans with the aim of minimising the impact of the construction of Sizewell C on local communities. We are working to reduce the potential pressure on local roads caused by our workforce and the movement of construction materials by: • building a temporary accommodation campus (up to 2,400 bed spaces); • using park and ride facilities to reduce the number of worker car journeys; and • moving construction materials by sea and rail where possible. • Rail - two options are now proposed: a rail extension of Saxmundham-Leiston branch using the green route identified at Stage 1 (preferred over the other two Stage 1 route options) and potential extension further into the site or a new rail terminal and freight laydown on land east of Eastlands Industrial Estate. • Sea transport - in addition to the temporary jetty and the permanent beach landing facility (BLF) in Stage 1, we are proposing a narrower jetty and potential use of the BLF during construction as further options for marine delivery. There seem not to be any impacts arising from the proposals that would be peculiar to Trimley St Martin. In broad terms there may well be job opportunities for local people, as well as a variety of business opportunities. This is a ten year project, inevitably over the course of this period the additional traffic on the A12 may well result in more general traffic congestion in the area. .
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